Did you get all excited on November 16 to get Jade Dragon, only to scratch your head at the dlc?

Did you look at a living Chinese Emperor and wondered how they managed to get a Temple Name (when they only get it after death)?

Did you play as a Khitan character, switch to Chinese Imperial government, only to find yourself becoming the Emperor of Yuan/Mongol?

Well, this mod attempts to fix all these things. Stay tuned...

Features:

NOTE: Should be save-game compatible with 2.8.1 unless you have picked the "Adopt Chinese Imperialism" decision OR the map has spawned a Chinese Imperial government realm already. I am looking into making the mod fully save-game compatible in the future.Bug fix for 2.8.1: As far as I know 2.8.1 introduced a huge bug for the Borjigin family, in an attempt to reduce loitering of Chinese Emperor's relatives in 769 and other starts Paradox decided to send all members of the Chinese Emperor's dynasty back to China, yes even landed ones. So if you start at any bookmark after Ogdei Khan becomes Emperor of China, all the Borjigins khans will be stuck in China. I've sort of fixed it by only making unlanded sons and brothers of the Emperor returning.

CB: Han or Taoist characters now have access to a duchy-level conquest CB (Heavenly Conquest). It ends in the duchy title usurped and original holder executed, but vassalizes the original vassals.

Temple Name system: You will now be able to assign Temple Names to dead or deposed Chinese Imperial Government Emperors depending on their deeds and actions By toggling the game rules you can manually choose from more than 70 distinct Temple Names OR have the game automatically give you to your ruler based on the character's actions (realm size increase? Wars won and lost in lifetime etc...). Look at the List of Temple Names for a full list.

Imperial Principality: Appendage Kingdom-level titles for kinsmen of Chinese Imperial Government with a spanwed 600 guard unit. Currently only a maximum of 10 can be given out (which are halved and quartered depending on vassal limit game rule) This is due to concerns regarding vassal limit. I don't want the AI to exceed the vassal limit because of this. Look at the list of Principalities for a full list. When any Imperial Principality inheirits another Principality, the newly inherited one will be destroyed along with the guard unit. Likewise if a Prince becomes the Emperor the title is destroyed.

Retinue: Created the "Xuanjia Cavalry" Light Cavalry retinue. Arguably a strong Chinese presence in Central Asia would always indicate a strong Cavalry force like the Han, Tang and to a small extent the Ming

Buildings: Created the light cavalry buildings, also changed the crossbow building descriptions to give more immersion. - Can now build sections of the Great Wall in Jiuquan/Hexi, giving boost to fort level and garrisons. The walls can be connected by a decision once you've built all of them. - Harem Court: boosts fertility and reduces taxation

Balancing:

Religion: Taoists can now navigate the river, the Chinese mostly had a greater river naval presence compared to the oceans due to geographical limits (along the Yangtze river especially)

Offmap: Change the gender chance of Chinese Emperors, Empresses are now considerably less likely to appear, the previous 1 in 20 chance was too ridiculous. But if the game rule was turned to gender equality it will become a 50/50 roll of genders.

December 18 First Release

A majority of the features made it to the release, even though I had some test runs for some of the features I will expect some bug (since I'm still human and there's only one of me :( ).

Fixed Vanilla Bug where landed relatives of the Chinese Emperor are stuck in China.

What to expect in the coming release: Temple Name system for offmap rulers. Database overhaul for Jurchen and Khitan Emperors, as well as 2 custom scenarios in 769 and 1170s allowing you to play as Emperor-level Han Taoist characters.

December 13 Update

Cultural Buildings, Retinue and Casus Belli...

Don't have time to write an article like last time, so I'll just put it right here.

- You can now build a section of the Great Wall in the baronies of Duchy of Jiuquan (name in game will be called Hexi depending on who's the holder). One upgrade will be available that stacks an extra fort level, but this will only be available through the decision menu, which represents the Great Wall sections getting "connected"

- A series of light cavalry buildings along with a light cavalry retinue. Almost all unified dynasty except for the Song were known more for their light cavalry and heavy infantry as opposed to their "Crossbows" (but the crossbow retinues + buildings remain in game).

- Palaces for the Ladies that boosts ruler fertility.

- Casus Belli: new Heavenly Mandate Conquest, which has similar conditions as Holy War but you don't usurp all title in the duchy, rather you vassalize everyone and usurp the duchy title. This is done to reflect most of the Tang expansion policy to retain majority of the local rulers (although there might be some special actions you can take against the original duchy owner).

I should be able to finish up the localisation for the temple name system over the weekend, so the earliest release will be by then if I can get it all together. The temple name system will assess and track realm size change, wars won and lost in order to "accurately" give you a temple name (nickname after death).

December 6 Update

Chinese Principalities, Era Names, and some localisation change...

- You will now able to give your male dynasty members a dynamic Kingdom-level title separate from landed fiefs, more on this in the feature diary

Alright, so I'm still in the middle of final exams, but I had some time on my hands so I debugged and refactored some of the event codes, took some new screenshots (the previous ones were arranged quite weirdly...)

A core part of this mod is changing the player's experience playing as a Chinese pretender empire as well as observing an AI pretender empire if they spawn (which they do as some of you probably have seen...). So the first step in building this new immersion is to include the concept of "Principality".

What are Principalities?

Basically, they're appendage titles just like Western Europe, such as Prince of Wales, Prince of Girona, Dauphine and whatnot. And just like Western Europe, before the early Tang dynasty they're almost always associated with a landed fief. By the start of the game however, there began a trend of making these Imperial titles quite honorary, with the Emperor occasionally appointing these sons and younger brothers to regional commands. Another thing is that they're almost always exclusively limited to those of the Imperial clan.

How are they shown in this mod?

In game, after you've formed a pretender Chinese dynasty, you can go to the character interaction with any male member of your dynasty in your realm and click on the "Give Imperial Principality" button.

Then, there will be 1 of 39 (40 in total, but 1 will have the same name as your dynasty so it will be excluded when calculating) historical Chinese appendage titles given to this little baby boy.

Here we can see that Baby Zhou Pu has become the Prince of Wei. Each Imperial Guard has a set guard of 600 troops. Historically they would've been a lot bigger depending on their regional commands, with the Crown Prince entitled to a 30,000 retinue. But of course, seeing that the average AI entity probably would be lucky to have a 30,000 levy on the map, it's been modded 600 per each Imperial prince instead.

Also, since the troops cost maintenance, they're given a monthly income of 0.75 (just enough to pay for the guards). However, I've considering adding an extra 0.25 for them later or something.

Notice that this only gives a +40 opinion boost, because Chinese Princes are entitled brats... You're only giving them what they expect you to give.

These titles are dynamic, so during the case of multiple Chinese Empires existing, there can exist multiple Prince of Wei's, but only 1 "Prince of Wei" may exist in each realm. A text document will be included in the mod that lists out all the possible Principality titles.

Titles, Names, Localisation...

Now a key part of what motivated me to make this mod was looking at the names Paradox liked to give to Chinese Emperors. I've done away with the old Temple-name system since they should always be given after their deaths. Instead, I've instituted randomized "era" names. Era names are essentially equivalent to calendar names (Like AD/Anno Domini, so A.D. 1644 would be Chongzhen 17 in China). These are what the average peasants or foreign diplomats *sometimes* refer to Emperors as, so they double as "names" for Emperors during their life time. Before the Ming dynasty each Emperor could go through as many as 10 per reign, after the Ming they are almost always kept to 1.There are 61 in total, 10 reserved for founding Emperors of a dynasty.

Here we see the new Emperor (now named Emperor Huichang) adopting a new Era name upon ascension, and assigning a Temple name (nickname) that summarized the Emperor's reign. In this case, Emperor Shaoxing became known as "Taizu" (the Great Progenitor). But more on this central system in the next dev article... Like the Principalities there will be a text document for all the possible era names and some of them will be annotated with historical events.

Localisation wise, I've changed all the old "Kings", "Dukes" and "Counts". As Imperial China was mostly a bureaucratic government, Kingdom-level titles are usually non-hereditary Circuit commanders. By the time of the game during the chaos of the 8th - 10th century, many of them had become hereditary, so I've decided to name the non-Viceroy Kings as "Hereditary Jiedushi" or "Hereditary Circuit Commanders".

There's a problem with Ducal localisation that I'm currently looking suggestion. Dukes are currently named as "Jiedushi" as well, since if each duchy corresponds to a province (as with the case of Qinghai and Jiuquan), there's never a rank of a "Kingdom" in the eyes of Chinese bureaucracy. So Kingdoms and Duchies will share their names as Circuits, with Kingdoms treated as Provincial Commanders who have jurisdiction over several Circuits.

County-leveled rulers are named "Junshou", or the administrator of a "Jun" = County.

"Prince" == "Prince"?

I understand the new Principality feature will cause confusion in the game with the existing "Prince of __" minor title. Therefore, all Chinese "Prince of__" minor title will be changed to "Imperial Prince" to avoid confusion. Because believe it or not, there is also a rank of "County Prince" for those who aren't dynastic that I'm planning to implement in the future...

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Never played CK2+ so I couldn't be sure, but I don't think it would interfere with it as I don't believe any major western mods have taken a huge stab at Chinese Imperial beyond localisation yet. Only case it might some game-breaking issues is if CK2+ changed the map and landed-titles somehow, which would screw-up the whole Great Wall decision.

Accidentally got logged out but that Guest was me. In case the reply didn't go through: "Never played CK2+ so I couldn't be sure, but I don't think it would interfere with it as I don't believe any major western mods have taken a huge stab at Chinese Imperial beyond localisation yet. Only case it might some game-breaking issues is if CK2+ changed the map and landed-titles somehow, which would screw-up the whole Great Wall decision."